 | Thomas Oliver Selfridge - Murder - 1807 - 182 pages
...preventive defence, but in sudden and violent cases ; when certain and immediate suffering would be the consequence of waiting for the assistance of the...least probable) means of escaping from his assailant." In page 188, the learned writer describes the nature of felonious homicide : " Felonious homicide is... | |
 | Massachusetts, William Charles White - Law - 1810 - 202 pages
...defending himself, will be murder. But to excuse homicide upon chance-medley in self- Com 1M defence, it must appear that the slayer had no other possible...difficult to distinguish this species of homicide (upon chance-medley in self-defence) from that of manslaughter, in the proper, legal sense of the word.... | |
 | Henry Potter - Justices of the peace - 1816 - 474 pages
...certain and immediate suffering would be ^ the consequence of waiting for the law, Wherefore to exxuse homicide by the plea of self-defence, it must appear that the slayer had no ether possible means- of escaping from hi* assailanti- > ': '- ;.•.- *...•'••< sn some cases... | |
 | Trials (Murder) - 1820 - 212 pages
...preventive defence, but in sudden and violent cases ; when certain and immediate suffering would be the consequence of waiting for the assistance of the...difficult to distinguish this species of homicide (upon chance-medley in self-defence) from that of manslaughter, in the proper legal sense of the word.... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...preventive defence, but in sudden and violent cases; when certain and immediate suffering would be the consequence of waiting for the assistance of the...self-defence, it must appear that the slayer had no cither possible, (or, at least, probable) means of escaping from his assailant. Under this excuse of... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 576 pages
...of preventive defence, but in sudden and violent cases when certain and immediate suffering would be the consequence of waiting for the assistance of the...difficult to distinguish this species of homicide (upon chance-medley in self-defence) from that of manslaughter, in the proper legal sense of the word... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 584 pages
...of preventive defence, but in sudden and violent cases when certain and immediate suffering would be the consequence of waiting for the assistance of the...difficult to distinguish this species of homicide (upon chance-medley in self-defence) from that of manslaughter, in the proper legal sense of the word... | |
 | Alexander Whellier - 1825 - 836 pages
...preventive defence, but in sudden and violent caset, when certain and immediate suffering would be the consequence of waiting for the assistance of the...possible (or, at least, probable) means of escaping froi& his assailant. Under this excuse of self-defence, the principal civil and natural relations are... | |
 | William Hough - 1825 - 1028 pages
...certain and immediate suffering would be the consequence of waiting for the assistance of the /<.•;(. Wherefore, to excuse homicide by the plea of self-defence,...slayer had no other possible (or, at least, probable J means of escaping from his assailant" (378). " It is frequently difficult to distinguish this species... | |
 | Daniel Davis - Justices of the peace - 1828 - 522 pages
...assault, in the course of a sudden quarrel, by killing him who assaults him. But to excuse homicide, upon the plea of self-defence, it must appear that the slayer had no other possible means of escaping his assailant.J Felonious homicide is the killing of a human creature of any age... | |
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Wherefore, to excuse homicide by the plea of self-defence, it must appear that the slayer had no other possible (or at least probable) means of escaping from his assailant. 
